The Nation: Abolition Democracy W.E.B. Du Bois and the making of Black Reconstruction. By Gerald Horne – MAY 3, 2022 By the time his magnum opus, Black Reconstruction, was published in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois was already a rara avis—a prominent Black activist-intellectual in the midst of Jim Crow. Dapper and diminutive, and nattily … Continue reading A Long, Satisfying Read: DuBois’s “Black Reconstruction”
The “Truth Gaffe” of the Century Excerpted from The Guardian: The audience chuckled at George W Bush’s Iraq-Ukraine gaffe. I’m not laughing Arwa Mahdawi I don’t think it’s possible to overstate the depravity and horror of the former president’s 2003 invasion of Iraq Published: Saturday, 21 May 2022 George Bush accidentally confessed to being a … Continue reading G. W. Bush’s Accidental Moment of Truth
[NOTE: Sure, Quakers may have started it all in Pennsylvania, back in 1680. But this year, the relative handful of Friends left there (about 11,000, give or take a few hundred) occupy a tiny back row up in the nosebleed section of state’s rowdy political stadium, especially compared to the mass of Keystone Catholics, who … Continue reading Mastriano & the Bishops: A Catholic Religious Crisis in the (Onetime) Quaker State
Today, May 19, is when Oscar Wilde was released from prison in Reading England. That was in 1897. Once the darling of literary London and high society, Wilde’s brilliant career had been destroyed by a scandal involving young male prostitutes and a prosecution he largely brought on himself. Wilde had served two years of hard … Continue reading Oscar Wilde – On His Release From Prison
NOTE: Much of the public, after two-plus grueling years of Covid, seems determined to forget all that as rapidly as possible. My hat is off to ProPublica for staying on one of the big buried scandals of this period: how Trump officials colluded with corporate lobbyists from Big Meat to minimize worker protection while maximizing … Continue reading White House Protected Big Profits for Big Pork & Big Poultry While Big Waves of Pandemic took down thousands of Unprotected plant Workers